2003/10/08 by Juan A. Valiente Kroon · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.92.041101
published as Phys.Rev.Lett.92:041101,2004
arxiv created 2003/10/08 · openalex publication_date 2004/01/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is proved that stationary solutions to the vacuum Einstein field equations with a nonvanishing angular momentum have no Cauchy slice that is maximal, conformally flat, and nonboosted. The proof is based on results coming from a certain type of asymptotic expansion near null and spatial infinity--which also show that the development of Bowen-York-type data cannot have a development admitting a smooth null infinity--and from the fact that stationary solutions do admit a smooth null infinity.